If man was made in God's image, then does God have nipples?
—not to be sacrilegious or anything. I was thinking of that old question that was: Why do men have nipples? I asked my mum that once, and she said ”Because God said so.” xD
Anyway, does it work that way, or is it that God isn’t fully human so he doesn’t have a need for nipples? Hopefully this makes sense… It made sense in my mind, but writing it down is kind of iffy.
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God is supernatural, not physical. Nipples are physical. The way man is made in God’s image is never specified.
Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?
Now I have got that Joan Osborne song in my head. “What if God was one of us. Just a slob like one of uuuuss…”
Image does not have to mean physical image. Your thoughts of feelings can be an image of someone elses.
Well he milks every bit of adulation out of millions of people so yeah. I don’t keep abreast of these things so just a wild guess i’m afraid.
Never mind that, does God have a . . . digestive system?
“Image” doesn’t have to mean external appearance, although it does sound like it in these translations (see verses 26 and 27). Maybe someone who reads Hebrew can help us out with the exact word and tell us about its nuances and secondary meanings.
God isn’t human at all. That is the whole point of being God.
nipples are a product of fetus formation. nature loves to save time and cut corners, so while its being “decided” if we are going to be male or female, we are given nipples to save time later on in the formation.
as for god and his image, i think you will find most theists will claim that is a reference to our morality and intelligence, not our physical form.
Yes, he does. He has 9, in fact.
Does God have dreads, tatooes, piercings, wings?
Many things are not literal (aka Revelations). The Bible (whether you believe in it or not) has great literature and poetry. Symbols. But the image is what God has decided man to become. I believe @Jeruba said. The only other explanation I can think of I heard from my priest a while back. I can’t remember it though…
This is the unfortunate result of essentialism. Man isn’t like a geometrical shape; he is the process of an evolving species. Though in present time we are similar enough as human beings, to be a species, we won’t always be as we are. (An example of this would be that we have gotten taller over the past 2000 something years)
So if you do interpret this to mean that god’s image is like our own as homo-sapiens than we would have to assume that god himself is evolving and therefore imperfect.
There isn’t really an “image of man” or if there were and you took the story literally, that would mean that god, at the time made us in his image and we must now assume that he is something like 2 or 3 feet shorter than most of us.
The gods are aliens, came to Earth, fiddled with ape DNA and created us in their own image. Seems straightforward enough to me.
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